54050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Evolution, Industrial Revolution, Scientific Method
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Enlightenment time of great scientific advancement significant social and political change. Divining gods will no longer the way to knowledge. Human thinking forms geneology, much of discplines derive from. Began to understand the world through external forces of nature. Questioning, challenging- social contrast idea came about citizens government, base for government about people. Positivist- facts should be observable and measurable. Sociologists should be able to determine using the scientific method and applied it to social phenomena. Same laws of nature dictating how society is formed and how they work. Englishmen, social evolution- european society most involved, non european more (cid:862)p(cid:396)i(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e(cid:863) Survival of the fittest- between and within societies, natural that the strongest survive and others die. Context: colonialism, poor laws of england industrial revolution, theories supported government- justified colonialism. Understand society, must study the economy and modes of production. Class- relationship to means of production (capital)
